Comprehensive Spine Care
Comprehensive Spine Care
From Diagnosis to Recovery
Highly skilled and experienced spine specialists dedicated to providing exceptional care for all your spine-related needs.
Highly skilled and experienced spine specialists dedicated to providing exceptional care for all your spine-related needs.
About Us
Our mission is to help you achieve optimal spine health and improve your quality of life. Whether you are suffering from a spinal injury, degenerative condition, or chronic pain, we are here to help you find the best treatment options and personalized care to meet your unique needs.
Our spine doctors are experts in their field and are committed to staying up-to-date with the latest advances in spine care. We use state-of-the-art technology and minimally invasive techniques to provide the most effective treatments possible.
Our Surgeons
Dr. Holly Kelly
Dr. Holly Kelly has been practicing spinal rehabilitation and pain management since 2003 and has worked with the California Orthopedics & Spine team for over ten years. A San Rafael native, Dr. Kelly loves to give back to the community that she grew up in and sees patients from all over Marin County and the surrounding communities and cities.
Dr. Kelly strives to provide every patient with an outstanding experience at California Orthopedics & Spine. When a patient comes in, she understands that it is likely the most important thing they are doing that day. She works hard to provide every patient with respect and to be accommodating to their needs. She finds it incredibly rewarding to help someone with horrible pain return to a normal lifestyle through simple (often nonoperative) treatment.
Education and Training
Dr. Kelly received her bachelor’s degree in biology at Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH. She returned to the Marin area where she worked as a physical therapy aid before returning to the mid-west to complete her medical degree at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo. She was drawn to the dramatic impact she could make in the lives of patients through the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation specialty. So, after completing a one-year internal medicine internship at Cal Pacific, Dr. Kelly completed a residency at UC Davis Medical Center where she gained hands-on experience in nonoperative orthopedic treatment.
Dr. Kelly also completed a fellowship in Pain Management and Anesthesia at UC Davis, before accepting a position with Kaiser following her training. Dr. Kelly first connected with the team at California Orthopedics & Spine through her husband, an established Marin physical therapist, and brings a wealth of conservative treatment experience to the practice. She specializes in spinal evaluation and treatment and focuses her practice on nonoperative spinal care, rehabilitation program management, and pain medication management. She provides a variety advanced treatments including epidural steroid injections, radiofrequency neuroablation, PRP injections, and much more.
Dr. Hooman Melamed
Founder of The Spine Pro since 2005, highly regarded and board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon Dr. Hooman M. Melamed has been named to the Super Doctor’s list and Prestigious Castle Connolly “Top Doctor” multiple years in a row. In addition to his surgical skills, the L.A. resident has become the “go-to” expert on programs such as Dr. Oz, The Doctors, Fox News and local T.V.
Dr. Melamed specializes in minimally invasive endoscopic and microscopic spinal and scoliosis surgery and is on the vanguard of cutting-edge treatments involving nonsurgical cell therapy with PRP and bone marrow, artificial disc replacement, alternative treatment options for traditional fusion surgeries and more. He has also developed a unique patent-pending approach to treating patients without narcotics, and most surgeries are performed on an out-patient basis going home the same day. He served as Director of Scoliosis at Cedars Sinai Marina Del Rey Hospital from 2013 to 2021. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and a member of the Scoliosis Research Society. He is the lead author on multiple published peer-reviewed papers. He has presented his research before the North American Spine Society, Congress for Neurological Surgeons, Scoliosis Research Society, Cervical Spine Research Society and International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques.
Dr. Hooman Melamed graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.S. in neuroscience. He later attended the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, receiving a scholarship from the prestigious Morris H. and Gertrude M. Harris Foundation. Dr. Melamed then completed his residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Orthopedic Surgery while going on to receive numerous fellowships for his work. He did an additional year of spinal fellowship at Cedars Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders getting more expertise surgical training in minimally invasive and spinal deformity surgery. Since graduating in 2005, Dr. Melamed has continued expanding his skills and continuously learning and evolving as a doctor and surgeon by traveling to South America, Asia, and different states in United States observing other well known and respected spine surgeons and participating in surgery.
Dr. Robert Rovner
Dr. Rovner grew up in Washington, D.C. He attended college at the University of Maryland, earning a B.S. in Zoology in 1975. He completed his M.D. degree at the University of Maryland in 1979. Having had enough of the East Coast at that point, he moved to California for General Surgery Internship and Orthopedic Surgery Residency at the University of California at Irvine from 1979 to 1984, and then completed a Fellowship in Spine Surgery at USC-Rancho Los Amigos Hospital from 1984 to 1985. He became eligible for board certification in 1987, passed the Orthopedic Surgery Board exam that year in the 99th percentile, and has re-certified at 10-year intervals since.
Upon completion of 14 years of medical training, Dr. Rovner started in private practice in the East Bay in 1984, and has been here serving patients from Oakland to Livermore since then. This includes volunteer time at CCS children’s clinics, volunteer time for scoliosis screening in local school districts, and volunteer time as team physician for one of our local high school football teams. He has been on the volunteer clinical faculty of the University of California at Davis School of Medicine since 1998 and is currently Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, having spent several years in the Department of Spine Surgery there.
Dr. Rovner has been in practice with Vikram Talwar since 2005. Together they created Disc and Spine in 2015. This is a private practice devoted to both surgical and non-surgical spine care, with an emphasis on personalized patient care and service. As a team, they are able to analyze difficult cases together, and assist each other in surgery, bringing over 50 years of combined clinical practice to bear on challenging cases.
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